A Genealogy of Tropical Architecture traces the origins of tropical architecture to nineteenth century British colonial architectural knowledge and practices.
Architectural education is under pressure to meet the demands of an evolving construction industry and to cater to the increasingly varied career destinations of graduates.
This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city.
CULINARY LESSONS - The Space of Food is based on a series of events, Culinary Lessons, which were hosted by the Stadelschule Architecture Class and which engaged with the relation between food, art and architecture.
A sharp and lively text that covers issues in depth but not to the point that they become inaccessible to beginning students, An Introduction to Architectural Theory is the first narrative history of this period, charting the veritable revolution in architectural thinking that has taken place, as well as the implications of this intellectual upheaval.
In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building.
El deporte y el ejercicio físico en general siempre tuvieron adeptos, aunque en estos tiempos la conciencia sobre su valoración para optimizar la calidad de vida convirtió a muchos sedentarios en activistas.
Garish churches, gabled panel blocks, neo-historical tenements-this book is about these and other architectural oddities that emerged in Poland between 1975 and 1989, a period characterised by the decline of the authoritarian socialist regime and waves of political protest.
This book revisits the history of the international garden city town planning movement in the early twentieth century, focusing on the significance of various forms of 'physical culture' - sport, recreation, leisure, and other active body practices - within garden city planning discourse and the development of some of the first garden city communities in the United Kingdom and United States.
Bringing together a broad range of contributors including art, architecture, and design academic theorists and historians, in addition to practicing artists, architects, and designers, this volume explores the place of the sketchbook in contemporary art and architecture.
Freud sobre la arquitectura explica qué ofrece Sigmund Freud para comprender la creatividad y la experiencia de la arquitectura, con ejemplos que van desde el Movimiento Moderno hasta la actualidad.
Identifying and critically discussing the key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits that comprise our understanding of fieldwork in architectural education, research and practice, this book collates contributions by established and emerging international scholars.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century.
Understanding Sustainable Architecture is a review of the assumptions, beliefs, goals and bodies of knowledge that underlie the endeavour to design (more) sustainable buildings and other built developments.
The material and cultural world in which we now live perhaps represents the end of a process created out of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
The spread of newly 'invented' places, such as theme parks, shopping malls and revamped historic areas, necessitates a redefinition of the concept of 'place' from an architectural perspective.
The book Practices of Reflexive Design provides a revealing and initiating insight into the scope of research-oriented design and design-oriented research in architecture and landscape architecture and shows what aims can be associated with this.
The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today.
Blurred Transparencies in Contemporary Glass Architecture brings to light complex readings of transparent glass through close observations of six pivotal works of architecture.
Largamente esperada, esta nueva edición revisada y actualizada de Las medidas en la arquitectura (Col·legi Oficial d'Arquitectes de Catalunya, 1983) insiste en el carácter atipológico del contenido y continúa dando vigencia al método seguido para fijar las medidas en arquitectura: partir de las dimensiones del ser humano, del alcance de sus gestos y del equipo y mobiliario involucrados para determinar los ámbitos de las actividades que, en la arquitectura cotidiana, pueden resumirse en tres grupos: estancia, circulación y almacenamiento.
This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion.
Investigating various ways in which the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture, original essays in this book written by an international range of recognized theorists will help all students of architecture and urban design understand how the urban and rural relate.
Set within the broader context of post-war Austria and the re-education initiatives set up by the Allied forces, particularly the US, this book investigates the art and architecture scene in Vienna to ask how this can inform our broader understanding of architectural Postmodernism.
Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Semper's classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural development, culminating in his two-volume publication Style.
Buildings are increasingly 'dynamic': equipped with sensors, actuators and controllers, they 'self-adjust' in response to changes in the external and internal environments and patterns of use.
Based on the recent discovery of his fully-preserved private archive-models, photos, letters, business files, and drawings-this book tells the story of Theodore Conrad (1910-1994), the most prominent and prolific architectural model-maker of the 20th century.
Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design.
En el casi medio siglo transcurrido desde la edición completa en alemán de su Libro de los Pasajes, Walter Benjamin se ha convertido en una referencia clave en muchos ámbitos de la crítica.
In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades.
